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Aakar Patel | Can Bangladesh control attacks on minorities, move to secular future?Columnists
Aakar Patel | Can Bangladesh control attacks on minorities, move to...

The events in Bangladesh and the Sheikh Hasina government’s overthrow have come with predictable violence...

13 Aug 2024 12:12 AM IST

Saeed Naqvi | Some memories of Bangladesh: Language, culture led to deep bondsColumnists
Saeed Naqvi | Some memories of Bangladesh: Language, culture led to...

Bangladesh was created behind my back. Since I was a reporter with the Statesman, I was surprised I was being...

12 Aug 2024 1:06 AM IST

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | The Delhi-Dhaka saga: Past, present & futureColumnists
Abhijit Bhattacharyya | The Delhi-Dhaka saga: Past, present & future

This is not about the recent ouster of Sheikh Hasina, till the other day the Iron Lady on the Padma. As...

12 Aug 2024 12:02 AM IST

Anita Anand | As Yunus takes charge in Dhaka, can he deliver on a ‘2nd liberation’?Columnists
Anita Anand | As Yunus takes charge in Dhaka, can he deliver on a ‘2nd...

On August 8, Bangladeshi economist and Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, globally known as the “banker to the...

11 Aug 2024 12:12 AM IST

Ranjona Banerji | No need for a joint silver, Vinesh feat sans parallelColumnists
Ranjona Banerji | No need for a joint silver, Vinesh feat sans...

There is something very final about sport. Winners and losers. No matter what they tell you about playing the...

11 Aug 2024 12:12 AM IST

Manish Tewari | Targeted assassinations: Can they be legitimised?Columnists
Manish Tewari | Targeted assassinations: Can they be legitimised?

The recent assassination of the political chief of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, ostensibly at a guest house in Tehran...

11 Aug 2024 12:12 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Mobs rampage in UK after murder of 3 kids: But why talk of ‘civil war’?Columnists
Farrukh Dhondy | Mobs rampage in UK after murder of 3 kids: But why...

“O Bachchoo, where did it all go wrong? When you thought you were justified all the way along? ...

10 Aug 2024 12:20 AM IST

Shobhaa De | No mangal in this dangal: How India blew it in ParisColumnists
Shobhaa De | No mangal in this dangal: How India blew it in Paris

The kadwa Paris Olympics daal has left an unpleasant aftertaste… quel dommage! The fiasco of started...

10 Aug 2024 12:14 AM IST

Indranil Banerjie | The Dragon’s bear hug: A strategic blunder by US?Columnists
Indranil Banerjie | The Dragon’s bear hug: A strategic blunder by US?

US policies may have unintentionally deepened the Russia-China alliance, reshaping global geopolitics and challenging...

9 Aug 2024 12:00 AM IST

Shikha Mukerjee | Caste, data & sub-quotas: No wriggle room for PMColumnists
Shikha Mukerjee | Caste, data & sub-quotas: No wriggle room for PM

Childish truculence is writ all over the Narendra Modi-led new minority government’s reaction that the water leaking in...

8 Aug 2024 9:28 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Sudan’s challenge is to clean and reform UPSCColumnists
Dilip Cherian | Sudan’s challenge is to clean and reform UPSC

Preety Sudan has her work cut out for her as she steps into the role of UPSC chairperson. Taking over from Dr...

8 Aug 2024 12:12 AM IST

K.C. Singh | India-Bangla ties adrift as Hasina flees from DhakaColumnists
K.C. Singh | India-Bangla ties adrift as Hasina flees from Dhaka

Bangladesh was simmering ever since the country’s high court had in June reinstated a 30 per cent reservation...

8 Aug 2024 12:12 AM IST

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